Bronislava Fuks

Born in Zin’kov, in the former Soviet Union (now Ukraine), in 1924, Bronislava survived two mass executions in the Zin’kov ghetto. In the summer of 1942, all the remaining Jews in Zin’kov were transferred to the Proskurov ghetto and later deported to the Dunaevtsy camp, where Bronislava’s mother and three brothers were executed in August 1942. Bronislava escaped from the camp in 1943 and fled east, hiding in villages and forests. Posing as a non-Jew, she was arrested in Smotrich in late 1943. While in prison, her health deteriorated, and she was sent to a local hospital. There she met members of a local underground group who helped her escape. Bronislava joined the underground group in Smotrich and, later, the Shchors partisan unit in the Kamenets-Podol’skii region.